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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theater history to 1642. An internationally recognized board of scholars oversees the publication of MaRDiE. Readers who wish to deepen their understanding of early drama will find that the journal publishes wide-ranging discussions not only of plays and early performance history, but of topics pertaining to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.
List of contents
ArticlesThierry and Theodoret: Censorship, Allegory and Plausible Deniability
Richard Dutton"In rugged verse vile matters to contain":
The Devil's Charter as Antipasquinade
James MardockThe Origins of Repertory in English Drama, or, How to Find Needles in Haystacks
Laurie JohnsonNot like the Others:
The Three Lords and Ladies of London and the Queen's Men Repertory
Erin KellyWas Christopher Marlowe a Capitalist?: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament,
The Jew of Malta, and Stories of Economic Change
Bradley RynerThe Wars of Cyrus: Date and Authorship, and Why They Matter
Michael J. Hirrel"Gone and Loste": Tracing Philip Henslowe's 1598 Theatrical Inventories
Anouska LesterQ1 Hamlet and its Compilers
Brian VickersAuthorship Attributions in the Fletcher Canon
Darren Freebury-JonesReviewsHarry R. McCarthy,
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Valerie BillingNoémie Ndiaye,
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race, RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Dennis BrittonDarren Freebury-Jones,
Shakespeare's Tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.
Christopher CrosbieMark Kaethler,
Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
David NicolCaroline Bicks,
Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World: Rethinking Female Adolescence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Bethany PackardUrvashi Chakravarty,
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Elizabeth RivlinEmma Lipton,
Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Jeffrey G. Stoyanoff
About the author
S. P. Cerasano is the Edgar W. B. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.
Heather Anne Hirschfeld is distinguished professor of the humanities in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee.
Edward Gieskes is professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
Summary
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642, covering not only plays and early performance history, but of topics relating to cultural history, as well as manuscript studies and the history of printing.
